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  1. Re:I hope they succeed. on India Will Show Its $10 Laptop Prototype · · Score: 2, Funny

    > I don't see why Negroponte's OLPC project didn't succeed before.

    the N word

  2. Talking of x86 sandboxes on Microsoft Releases Source Code For Web Sandbox · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX32

    which enables the User Mode Plan 9 - http://swtch.com/9vx/

  3. Re:Don't throw away your Arctic Silver yet. on Intel Develops Micro-Refrigerator To Cool Chips · · Score: 1

    Your use of [sic] is erroneous. Its purpose is to show you are copying spelling & grammar errors verbatim froma third party and you know that there is an error but chose to preserve it.

  4. I *WILL* make noise on Intel Develops Micro-Refrigerator To Cool Chips · · Score: 1

    > Fans are defiantly one way

    curse of the spell check :>

  5. Re:Sounds neat, but I'm confused... on Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart · · Score: 1

    > the state of the other qubit will change instantaneously

    The change was from undetermined to determined.

    > [they] then measured the first atom (A), thus destroying the delicate quantum information it contained, and also destroying the entanglement. That left the original qubit intact in only the second, recipient atom (B), completing the teleportation.

    To send information would require "setting" the qubit in A and re-observing B. The moment someone does that then it's news.

  6. Re:It's a rare game... on Zork Returning As a Browser MMO · · Score: 1

    In Lord of the Rings Online the player instruments can be played using ABC Notation

  7. Re:*security* - pathetic excuse on Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 1

    The drowners are usually drunken Mumbaians.

    Then again with such genius police that can't discriminate between committing suicide and being struck by lightning who can tell!

    http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jan152009/national20090114112591.asp

  8. 3D gaming rocks on Sony Teases 3D Playstation 3 · · Score: 1

    I use my Nvidia based lcd shutter glasses to play DX games in 3d, it's truly brilliant. The only problem one has with off the shelf games is that 2d HUDs are not 3d entities so are sometimes hard to read / get in the way.

    Also you need a 100Hz CRT monitor that runs interlaced but they are easy to find.

    Popping rockets off and seeing the trajectory is such fun. Driving is better. I love it.

  9. Re:any relation to the Ubuntu update? on Another DNS Flaw Found, Patched · · Score: 1

    You don't know how a car works? And are happy about it! Perhaps you should stick to MacRumours not /.

  10. Re:any relation to the Ubuntu update? on Another DNS Flaw Found, Patched · · Score: 1

    Nope, they guy tries to *sound* elitist but isn't. OpenBSD uses Ports which was a package manager long before Ubuntu was on the scene.

    I'm an elitist OpenBSD administrator too. I try to give us a bad name but usually with elitism not idiocy.

  11. QEMU + more modern OS on Another DNS Flaw Found, Patched · · Score: 1

    qemu.exe -hda debian.qcow -redir udp:53::53 -snapshot -vnc 3

    then you can run whatever DNS server you like (not necessarily Linux - Plan 9's DNS server doesn't suffer the sequence number guessing problem). Use snapshot once it's set up so that you can just switch off without worrying about syncing its fs, (or use the console to apply fs changes while in snapshot mode). Or use samba to attach to the Host FS and use that, or use AOE (though I've only tried that the other way round with Linux as the host).

    Ironically *we* use this setup to run our Windows 2000 server for the Win32 software we have to use (Movie Magic & Final Draft). The laptops start QEMU up on boot. My EeePC runs Qemu at usable speeds, even without the kernel module kqemu.ko.

    Booting Windows locked down is a real boon. I don't have to worry about LAN based malware attacks etc. or failed updates / installs.

    Hope this helps :)

  12. *security* - pathetic excuse on Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The blatant power grab / security theatre is so funny it's untrue!

    The transcripts of the sodding terrorist cellphone calls are available online and on the news and *what* different did that make?

    So, how often is this supposed sweep going to take place? If you'd been to Mumbai you'd be laughing till your sides ache. Any sort of WiFi is very low on the list of things most of the people about, this is a place where people live next to open sewers and shit into newspaper and leave it on the pavement - and not just in some ghettoised area. You have to watch where you tread for most of your day.

    Where I'm living atm. (Goa) we're supposed to be on high terror alert. So it now costs Rs. 100 ($1) to cross the checkpoints unsearched instead of the normal Rs. 10. They claim pride in no terror attacks yet there are rapes every few days and unnaturally caused dead bodies found regularly. The driving test is driving 20 yards, going round a traffic island and coming back. Btw. if you do get raped here you will be told it is your own fault and the best thing you can do is to go back to where you came from (if you can find a police station that will listen to your story).

    The biggest threat to your safety here as a local are the govt. officials. They are likely to be known murderers or their children can rape and murder with almost impunity a couple of times.

    India likes to project an image of a wonderful progressive country but it will remain mostly a third world corruption riddled shit hole for my lifetime. Esp. as the GDP growth is about to end and they already spend minimal amounts on the welfare of the people (less than 2% of GDP on healthcare) 25% of whom are illiterate.

  13. Re:So you think RSA is broken? on DNSSEC Advances in gTLDs; Bernstein Intros DNSCurve · · Score: 1

    you've made yourself look cock on the internet, won't be the first time or last (for either of us :)

  14. Re:sometimes translation to German, too! on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    > the extermination of millions of people for dubious reasons

    Do you have any non-dubious reasons for the extermination of millions of people handy?

  15. Re:Ya... Um... on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    They are taking a cast of his face at the Centre for Criminal Biology as he is considered race-pure and crime free so they can compare it's shape to other individuals in order to persecute them.

  16. Re:sometimes translation to German, too! on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    And they look pretty happy doing it too!

  17. Re:I'm Confused Why We Don't See This En Masse on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Won't more electoral pressure increase the pressure of the question "Will this help me get elected again?".

    Under your scenario increased electoral pressure would decrease the quality of govt. service.

  18. There is no line on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We are all animals. It's like saying where do we draw the line between snails and other animals. Makes no sense (except that they are not snails!)

  19. Re:Surely it belongs to the BBC? on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    MP was a BBC production like Eastenders, not bought-in like Heroes, paid for by the BBC licence payers. The BBC is a public corporation owned in trust for the British people by the Board of BBC governors, not like ITV which is owned by its shareholders.

  20. Surely it belongs to the BBC? on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    And as property of the BBC it is property of licence payers who provided the money for the clips.

  21. Re:re Hard to decide ... on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    you did, perhaps the touch failed

  22. Re:re Hard to decide ... on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    how did touch get run ?

  23. Re:so.. on German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS · · Score: 1

    I'd have them netboot over PXE and then there's just the morning spike to deal with. Department boot servers would deal with that.

    The three terminals in my office boot PXE & I know that booting 64k blue gene nodes into Plan9 is possible. This lies somewhere between the two.

  24. Price is not the factor round here on OpenOffice.org V3.0 Sets Download Record, 80% Windows · · Score: 1

    It's the cross platform & ODF (though we use Office 07 .doc as the default format because of sending them to third parties)

  25. In the Kernel? on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1

    How primitive. Those Linux guys are savages!